It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

Heart failure (HF) is a major and growing public health problem in the United States.
Approximately 5 million patients in this country have HF, and over 550 000 patients are …

The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force
on Practice Guidelines regularly reviews existing guidelines to determine when an update or …

The implementation of molecular biological approaches has led to the discovery of single
genetic variations that contribute to the development of cardiac failure. In the present review …

Aims Acute heart failure (HF) is a common but ill‐defined clinical entity. We describe patients
hospitalised with acute HF in regard of clinical presentation, mortality, and risk factors for an …

Objective: To delineate predictors of hospital survival in a large series of children with
biventricular physiology supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) after …

Diastolic heart failure occurs when signs and symptoms of heart failure are present but left
ventricular systolic function is preserved (ie, ejection fraction greater than 45 percent). The …

Diastolic heart failure is increasing in prevalence. Although the pathophysiology is
incompletely understood and current therapeutic strategies are limited, identification of …

Background Heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFPEF) affects
about half of all patients diagnosed with heart failure. The pathophysiological aspect of this …

Objective: To determine the concordance of different Doppler echocardiographic criteria for
“diastolic dysfunction” in patients with suspected heart failure but preserved left ventricular …